Even the ant, intent on pilfering sweets secreted for bees, it ruthlessly glues to death against its sticky stems and calices.
These provide a free lunch of sweets in the glands of their leaves to satisfy pilferers, which then seek no farther, leaving the flowers to winged insects that are at once despoilers and benefactors.
An occasional butterfly inserts its long, thin tongue, and, without transferring a grain of pollen for the flower, robs it of sweets clearly intended for the bumblebee alone.
The lavender fringe and the hairy involucre and stem serve the end of discouraging crawling insects, which cannot transfer pollen from plant to plant, from pilfering sweets that cannot be properly paid for.
By roughening its angled stem and leaves, it discourages pilfering ants and other crawlers from reaching the sweetsreserved for legitimate benefactors.
The veteran laid by his arms, battered in a thousand conflicts; hung his sword and lance against the wall, and, surrounded by a few friends, gave himself up apparently to the sweets of quiet and unambitious leisure.
It will be a perfect fairy bower, buried among sweets and roses.
Into these deep and capacious tubes the ruby-throat, with its long bill, probes, and draws forth either the sweets it produces, or picks up the multitude of flies entangled in the nectar.
For you there may be here and there a flower of remembrance stuck within the leaves of the play, but for him it is stained through with the sweets of sixty springs.
You have tasted the sweets of choosing your own friends, and snubbing the others.
She had given them only a part of the sweets that day, but they received the rest in small instalments till all were gone.
It's like having sweets to eat and such a cold that one can't taste 'em.
That personage had nodded to the young girl over a stack of pink roses and had made a little movement to show the basket of sweets beside his plate.
The dances are often interrupted by the serving ofsweets and ices.
Their thoughtfulness is rewarded, for on the following morning the visit of the Kings is attested by indubitable evidence, as there is an abundance of toys and sweets and the grass is often quite strewn about.
They have tasted the sweets of power but also the bitterness of defeat, alternately occupying high positions in the government and pining in prison or exile.
In one of these were sweets in abundance, to be had for the asking.
The young lady in charge was the kindest and most obliging dispenser of sweets that any child had ever yet seen.
He might have the sweets and welcome, but what the people had to offer was due only to my father and me, not to my brother.
He left Geta to eat the sweets which his aunts had given him, and when I too wanted some my brother refused to let me have any.
The Bay and the Villa Reale, a garden along the sea, full of sweets and sea breezes and shade, are certainly delightful.
He was about to retort, but the boys and girls scattered, some running ahead swinging their school bags, some stopping to look at the sweets in Dame Brewster's bake-shop window.
She and brother Nathaniel, hands clasped happily together, sat in its light, so glad to be together again that they needed neither gifts nor sweets to make their Christmas joy.
Round her rest wild flowers are creeping; There the wind is heaping, heaping Sweetest sweets of Summer's keeping.
I would not cast anew the lot once cast, Or launch a second ship for one that sank, Or drug with sweets the bitterness I drank, Or break by feasting my perpetual fast.
The Squire tasted once more the sweets of the only popularity which is much worth having, and the loss of which a wise man would reasonably deplore; viz.
He went often to the parsonage, often to the Hall, and by degrees the sweets of the social domestic life, long denied him, began to exercise their enervating charm upon the stoicism of our poor exile.
Full-fed with sweets of sense, I sink upon my couch in honied indolence!
Presently returning, she handed me a packet of the confections and with a mocking smile said: "Make thy husband happy while these sweets last; they are my wedding present to thee.
Sleep in thy peace, thy bed of spice, And make this place all Paradise: May sweets grow here!
Bonbons--they should be called sugar plums in this connection--must be old-fashioned sweets quaintly wrapped in fringed papers.
The table is set with the old-fashioned willow pattern china, quaint Sheffield silver and is unmarked by any of the small dishes of sweets that fill breakfast tables.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows you have your closes, And all must die.
Let beeves and homebred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!
Only one thing might be taken into consideration, with reference to the undertaking I had on hand, that, after having already tasted the sweets of affluence and repose, I was about to venture anew upon a life of misery and struggles.
Or has Diana, wearied in the chace, Chosen a spot where choicest sweets abound, To slumber on the consecrated ground?
Exert their balmy-breathing pow'rs; In vain her sweets does Nature bring, In vain she wears the smile of spring.
The Zephyrs now, with frolic wing, Their rosy beds forsake; And, shedding round the sweets of spring, Their drowsy comrades wake.
These come of many colors made from aniline dyes, and while probably not often hurtful, they should be used only in sweets and candies, and very seldom, if ever.
We know that it is easy to develop a taste for some one food in excess, as for instance, sweets or dishes rich in fat and too highly flavored, and the physician adds his word here to the plea for a study of food and its functions.
The liking for sweets should be well under control, for the eating of too much sugar is a habit easy to form, and one which crowds out other valuable foods.
She surveyed the garden of sweets from the terrace, but all appeared to be desolate.
If ought of Corydon employ thy care, When shades of night involve the silent sky, And slumbering in their stalls the oxen lie, Come to my longing arms and let me prove Th' immortal sweets of Galatea's love.
It was the very spot to foster her high romance, while she could at the same time enjoy the sweets of that domestic converse she loved best of all.
I lay with thee Beneath the forest tree, When spring was shedding her first sweets around.
